November 21, 2014, 06:48 AM | #26 |
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I consider loading down to that level dangerous. It's a good way to get a bullet lodged in your barrel.
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November 28, 2014, 10:55 AM | #28 |
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I had a problem with some "reactive" targets not too long ago at a match.
It was a match that a friend invited me to come to, and I had never been to his club before... There was one spring loaded rifle target. I was shooting frontier, with full BP .44-40 loads from my 1866 rifle (only one shooting real BP at the match). Everyone else was just making the target go down a bit with rifle shots, so I figured this was going to be easy. The first shot of the rifle rang good and loud on that target, but I got two more out of the gun before I realized the "full house loads" made the spring loaded target completely bottom out and take forever to get back up- shooting over it with the those two! I still had fun, but every time I was up, I heard the coughing and hacking (and heckling ).
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November 28, 2014, 05:21 PM | #29 |
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Good thing you didn't wreck it, full loaded.44-40 out of a rifle is pushing max for most of those targets. Bring a .45-70 and you might get only 1 shot.
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November 29, 2014, 04:51 PM | #30 |
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Gues I'll just need to watch.
SS and Retirement arent enough for another Vaquero and a rifle too . Guess I'll have to shoot paper aand cans and th pattern board! ZVP |
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